Byronic hero

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1. A kind of hero found in several of the works of Lord Byron. Like Byron himself, a Byronic hero is a melancholy and rebellious young man, distressed by a terrible wrong he committed in the past.

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Byronic hero

Mena’s nimbleness was a large part of what gave the overture to Schumann’s 1848 “Manfred” the humanity required to hear the composer’s heart in the chest of the Byronic hero.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021

As writer Rebecca Traister pointed out on Twitter, a woman who abandoned her family for "self-discovery tours" would be regarded as a selfish monster, not a Byronic hero.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2019

Singers can also have a harder time separating themselves from their made-up rock n’ roll persona – whether party animal or Byronic hero.

From Forbes ● Jan. 28, 2015

Wearing a wavy wig that makes him look like a cross between a Byronic hero and a disheveled bumpkin, Mr. Polenzani is an endearing Nemorino.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2012

The Byronic hero is one whose affections have burned themselves out, and who employs the last worthless years of his life writing them up.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

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